December 19, 2011
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- Word from Winkler: End of a mistake
- Incarnation’s implications
- An Advent message
- A Christmas rap
- A prayerful guide
- Charity is not enough
- Faith leaders oppose torture
- Human Relations Day
- 9th young clergy forum
- Lighten the Burden IV
- Peace with Justice grants
- 9th young clergy forum
- America’s Sunday Supper
- Internship opportunities
- On peace on earth
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December 12, 2011
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- Word from Winkler: Spiritual transformation
- Sex and the church: Mary's Advent
- What would Jesus think?
- A mixed blessing
- Modern-day Zacchaeus?
- Smokeless tobacco pinched
- DRC election
- Occupy Oakland
- Human Relations Day
- Online Advent devotional
- Tennessee immigration
- 9th young clergy forum
- On the fight against stigma
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December 2, 2011
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- Word from Winkler: Ignoring scripture
- Women voices of hope
- A gift to the Church
- Capitol Hill Chrismons tree
- Maternal-health training
- Signs vs. symbols
- Caught between fear, hospitality
- China persecutes Christians
- Health-care consultant wanted
- Addictions-prevention consultant
- Grassroots organizers needed
- Peace with Justice organizer
- Healthy Families position
- International Migrants Day
- On executions making society safer
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November 18, 2011
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- Word from Winkler: Questioning assumptions
- Sex and the church: Stigma, human rights, AIDS
- Prayer vigils for U.S. budget
- A future with amahl
- Heart-rending stories
- Human rights actions
- Don’t cut poverty funding
- Pray for persecuted Christians
- Occupy Wall Street
- International Migrants Day
- Bishops to uphold ban
- America’s Sunday Supper
- College honors 1st black grad
- Peace with Justice organizer
- Healthy Families opening
- On torture & waterboarding
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November 10, 2011
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- Word from Winkler: A prayer for fall
- UMC has a problem
- 500 DREAM Sabbaths
- Grassroots organizers sought
- The broken-open church
- Prayer for Persecuted Church
- Super prayer vigil on budget
- Bridging faith, foreign policy
- $3 million grant
- Peace with Justice grants
- Part-time consultant sought
- U.S. Congo policy
- San Francisco wage theft ordinance
- Social justice internships
- United Methodist Student Day
- On defeat of 'personhood' in Mississippi
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November 2, 2011
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- Word from Winkler: An 'American Spring'
- Super prayer vigil on budget
- Women bishops to Holy Land
- Private prisons
- Protect poverty diseases funding
- Global AIDS Fund salutes donors
- Global illness exceeds disease
- UMW joins Tar Sands Action
- Nuclear terrorism
- Health Care Justice Sabbath
- Racial justice grants
- Healing indigenous relations
- ‘Back to Work’
- Advent daily devotional
- Peace Prize Laureate dies
- On inclusion and exclusion
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October 26, 2011
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- Word from Winkler: Addicted to war
- Ethnic Local Church, Human Relations Day grants
- Preaching can save lives
- The real wealth of nations
- Iran’s religious extremism
- Agent Orange advocacy
- Faith food-stamp challenge
- A prisoner swap
- Gates praises United Methodists
- Strengthen U.N. for 21st century
- U.S. increasingly irrelevant
- Bishop Storey to preach
- Ministry with Prisoners & Families
- United Methodist Student Day
- On being proud to be United Methodist
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October 18, 2011
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- Word from Winkler: Occupying the Temple
- UN Sunday Oct. 23
- '40 Days of Prayer for HIV&AIDS'
- Why I’m going
- 'Rotunda 11' court settlement
- Peace and justice inevitability
- Open your doors to victims
- Ministry with Prisoners & Families
- Summer internship deadline
- Mental Illness Awareness
- 900 vow to perform gay weddings
- Domestic violence briefing
- Restorative justice seminar
- United Methodist Student Day
- Young clergy forum
- On ministry on the margins
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October 11, 2011
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- Word from Winkler: The wrong resolution
- 'Abolition Pledge'
- Sex & the church: 'Be manly'
- Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF
- Do mercy, teach justice
- Life-saving stories
- Global health funding
- Justice, mercy questions
- ‘Day for Justice’ webinar
- Restorative justice seminar
- Ethnic delegates wary
- Domestic violence briefing
- Witness to Innocence
- ‘Know Your Neighbor’
- Bullies, victims, bystanders
- On socially responsible investing
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October 4, 2011
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- Word from Winkler: Putting flesh on words
- Budget prayer vigils resume
- Don’t forget mental health
- DREAM Sabbaths underway
- Social Justice Endowment Fund
- In the hand of God
- 10-Fold multimedia experience
- Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
- Ministry with the marginalized
- Scoville Peace Fellowship
- World Food Day, Oct. 16
- Appalachian Assembly
- United Methodist Student Day
- On next decade’s greatest challenges
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September 27, 2011
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- Word from Winkler:
'It's hard to be a Christian'
- Mental Illness Awareness Week
- Support Palestinian statehood
- Yes to Palestine
- Campaign for compassion, justice
- Faith community conversation
- Immigration ministry moving to borders
- Who is my neighbor?
- Bishop’s convocation on immigration
- A spirituality of justice
- World Food Day, Oct. 16
- Faith’s role in presidential election
- 9th young clergy forum
- On Israel, Palestine conflict
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September 20, 2011
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- Word from Winkler: Working for well-being
- Court case is over
- The Arab Spring
- Letter to Hyatt Hotels
- Faith leaders support 2nd Chance
- Caucuses oppose restructure
- Illegitimate Debt Week
- Call to action on HIV & AIDS
- Faith and health-care reform
- U.S. poverty at record levels
- 9th annual Fair Trade Market
- ‘Re-visioning Justice’
- ‘Share the Table with a World Farmer’
- On whether numbers matter
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September 13, 2011
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- Word from Winkler: The myth of redemptive violence
- Day of Justice campaign
- Faith and health-care reform
- Sex and the church
- ‘Share the Table with a World Farmer’
- National Recovery Month
- Pilgrimage to Publix
- Gleaning truth
- Appalachian Assembly
- Hunger remains high in U.S.
- ‘Poverty & Peace’
- ‘Rethink Immigration’
- ‘Preaching to Save Lives’
- World Communion Sunday
- On the U.S. and the kingdom of God
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September 6, 2011
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- Word from Winkler: Our best hope
- Shoulder to Shoulder
- World-changing events
- Alabama immigration law put on hold
- Philippines impunity campaign
- Only Sunday worship allowed in Fiji
- Joseph
- 9/11: 10 years later
- International Day of Prayer for Peace
- Anti-poverty summit
- Economy trumps terrorism
- 'Breaking the Chains of Poverty'
- DREAM Sabbath toolkit
- World Communion Sunday
- 'Re-visioning justice'
- On 9/11 commemoration
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August 29, 2011
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- Word from Winkler: Change
- ‘Preaching to Save Lives’
- Health Care Justice Sabbath
- Annual conferences roundup
- Breaking Povety's chains
- Violence in Gaza Strip, Israel
- 'Labor in the Pulpits'
- What is THAT?
- ‘Women, War & Peace’
- 9/11 worship resources
- ‘Share the Table with a World Farmer’
- Restoring justice Oct. 29
- World Communion Sunday
- DREAM Sabbath toolkit
- Hispanic Heritage Month
- On the Christian faith
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August 22, 2011
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- Word from Winkler: Plain truths
- Alabama law imperils ministry
- ‘The Church & the Death Penalty’
- Mental illness training initiative
- ‘2011 Trafficking in Persons Report’
- Human rights pioneer dies
- Famine underscores injustices
- Proclaiming truth creatively
- ‘Re-visioning Justice’
- Tackling addiction
- DREAM Sabbath toolkit
- 40 Days of Prayer for Children
- Hispanic Heritage Month
- Peace Conference looks at poverty
- On ethical behavior
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August 12, 2011
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- Word from Winkler:
Creative maladjustment
- We’ve only just begun
- DREAM Sabbath toolkit
- Just my thoughts
- Sex & the church:
Sacramental sex
- Ministry helps ex-convicts
- Teen-dating violence
- Interview with Bishop Carcaño
- Don’t be conformed by the world
- Methodist Peace Award
- Call for civil discourse
- Young clergy to gather in New York
- 40 Days of Prayer for Children
- Hispanic Heritage Month
- Peace Conference looks at poverty
- On the 10th anniversary of 9/11
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August 5, 2011
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- Word from Winkler: Civil disobedience
- Faith leaders arrested
- What’s the ‘deal’?
- Tackling addiction
- Family planning aid slashed
- Called to be peacemakers
- Doing the right thing
- Pass it on
- ‘Cradle to Prison Pipeline’
- Religious leaders avoid AIDS ministry
- Football over families
- Sing a New Song
- Justice for Our Neighbors
- Hispanic Heritage Month
- Justice, reconciliation stories sought
- On the atomic bombings
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July 26, 2011
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- Word from Winkler: 'It's the church's fault'
- Take Medicare, Medicaid off table
- Interfaith witness on Medicare, Medicaid
- Pass, don't alter DREAM Act
- Religious leaders meet with Obama
- Saving bullies
- Immigration Grassroots Coordinator
- Ministry with Prisoners & Families
- 40 Days of Prayer
- Amachi reaches Desert Southwest
- ‘Do this and you will live’
- South Sudan debuts
- The Rev. Dick Parker died
- Justice, reconciliation stories sought
- On how incredible God is
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July 15, 2011
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- Word from Winkler: What will we be remembered for?
- DREAM Act Sabbath
- Can you hear them?
- Prayer vigils for ‘faithful budget’
- Sex and the church — Rape in Congo
- Faith leaders seek Holy Land peace
- Ethnic minority summer interns
- Brad Paisley vs. John Wesley
- Upsurge of persecution in India
- To love one another
- Taking the lead in sustainability
- Methodists speak to state leaders
- On the Church’s greatest challenge
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July 6, 2011
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- Word from Winkler: Things I've learned
- Hyatt union workers strike
- Interns tackle global issues
- 'Resolution for Immigration Reform'
- New cigarette warning labels
- A time to dance
- A special report
- South Carolina merger
- Study guide on just peace
- Cost of wars
- Peace with Justice award
- 30th year of HIV/AIDS
- On welcoming the stranger
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June 23, 2011
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- Word from Winkler: The battle goes on
- Bishop condemns Alabama bill
- Sex and the church
- Defeating Florida anti-immigrant bill
- Philippines reproductive health debate
- Shift Afghanistan strategy
- Repentance to indigenous peoples
- Peace message closes convocation
- How 2 became 1
- Agent Orange in Vietnam
- Methodist Experience in America
- General Conference monitors wanted
- On the ‘toughest immigration law in the country’
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June 14, 2011
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- Word from Winkler: Important faith aspects
- Criminal justice reform
- Sex and the church
- Drop ‘trumped-up charges’
- Illinois immigration clinic
- Hidden hands
- A prayer for peace
- An unsettling beginning
- Student Bill of Rights
- AIDS stigma remains 30 years later
- Santorum ‘still wrong’
- Reject ban on gay clergy
- Peace Conference looks at poverty
- Funds to strengthen inclusiveness
- On holding onto hope
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June 7, 2011
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- Word from Winkler: Our task is to witness
- Sex and the church
- Peace with Justice Sunday
- Ethnic Local Church grants
- Human Relations Day grants
- Blasphemy in Pakistan
- Drawn to social justice
- Seeking the gospel everywhere
- Interfaith Worker Justice Conference
- Where is the biblical foundation?
- When pastors prey.
- Reject ban on gay clergy
- Ending Institutional Discrimination within United Methodism
- On quitting smokeless tobacco
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May 31, 2011
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- Word from Winkler: A consumer-oriented church
- Peace with Justice grants
- Take tobacco out of the ballgame
- African seminarians visit Capitol Hill
- Ministry With* launched
- House budget morally indefensible
- The silent stones
- Peace with Justice Sunday
- It’s not the 1960s anymore
- Victims need assistance
- Overwhelming U.S. voter support for U.N.
- Serving from the Heart
- Bread for the World Gathering
- On reaching out to racial/ethnic minority populations
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May 20, 2011
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- Word from Winkler: Common-sense position
- Peace Convocation
- Children’s Rights Advocate
- Both/and, not either/or
- Stop violence in West Bank, Gaza
- Kaleidoscope Fable
- End sexuality discrimination
- Rocky Mountain Peacemaker
- ‘Modern-day Slavery’
- Understanding addiction
- ‘Build a Torture-Free Future’
- Genetic questions?
- Strengthening marriage
- Peace with Justice Sunday
- On May 21
Judgment Day
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May 9, 2011
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- Word from Winkler: A significant death
- Afghanistan exit strategy sought
- It’s not about you!
- Bin Laden was no ‘Geronimo’
- When abstinence fails
- Bin Laden death must be turning point
- Desecrating sanctity of life
- ‘I Believe You’
- Religious freedom in
Libya
- Peace with Justice Sunday
- Clergy marriage policy voided
- Worldwide action for peace
- Ecumenical agency change proposed
- Middle East peace conference
- On bin Laden not 'Geronimo'
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April 29, 2011
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- Word from Winkler: Topsy-turvy thinking
- A poor excuse
- Why it matters
- Reflections on resurrection
- A circle of protection
- My letter to President Obama
- Beatrice’s story
- Can you see it?
- Turmoil in Libya
- Prescription Drug Take-back Day
- Capitalism, Christian values at odds
- ‘Collective Bargaining’
- Maryland raises alcohol sales tax
- Consumer product safety database
- On ‘layperson’ does not equal ‘amateur’
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April 21, 2011
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- Word from Winkler: Drawing a line
- Educating about Native Americans
- Cheap alcohol’s high cost
- Hearing the cries of children
- Aging and older adulthood
- Seeking 1,000 clergy
- 'A Killer in the Dark'
- Musings from a hospital bed
- Bill targets underage drinking
- Cleaning our temples
- Churches for Middle East Peace conference
- Change the World May 14-15
- World Sunday for Peace May 22
- June is Torture Awareness Month
- On church and state
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April 14, 2011
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- Word from Winkler: Prayer for spring
- Festival of God’s Creation
- Stewardship of creation
- Ministry with alcoholics
- Alcohol Awareness Month
- A deafening silence
- Response to mindless mantra
- Deportation threatens dreams
- Restrictions hinder Holy Week
- Global education action week
- Older Adult Recognition Day
- ‘Nuclear Power & Faith’
- Pray for Ivory Coast
- Petition guidelines
- On ‘overarching crisis’
of faith and knowledge
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April 6, 2011
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- Word from Winkler: Picking poor pockets
- Religious Freedom Internship
- Religious freedom not a given
- Native American mascots must go
- Alcohol marketing and young people
- Illinois chooses life over death
- ‘Oh to walk where Jesus walked’
- Gender, justice take center stage
- Know your status!
- I love my country
- Battling human trafficking
- Native American Ministries Sunday
- Heritage Sunday May 22
- Creation’s Caretakers retreat
- On USAID spending
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March 29, 2011
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- Word from Winkler: Perpetual war
- Ethnic Local Church grants
- Human Relations Day grants
- Confronting alcohol’s global impact
- Background checks on buying guns
- It’s time for Palestine
- Lawmaker’s comment no ‘joke’
- Sexual ethics
- Stop teen dating violence
- Executing mentally ill opposed
- Giving to those who give relief
- ‘North Africa & the Middle East’
- Intersection of faith with immigration
- Michelle ‘Cookie’ Leach dies
- On differences and justice
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March 18, 2011
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- Word from Winkler: Investment in God's future
- Celebrating a milestone
- Faith leaders defend bargaining
- Drinking socially or for health?
- ‘To bigotry no sanction’
- Holy Land pilgrimage
- Rubbing shoulders with history
- New Texas immigration tone sought
- Florida immigration bill denounced
- Restrict cluster bombs legislation
- I can make a difference
- Reconciling massacre
- Federal budget prayer vigil
- Interfaith prayer service for Japan
- On women at the Wailing Wall
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March 10, 2011
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- Word from Winkler: Alcohol Free Lent
- Faith leaders condemn hearings
- Budget’s ‘moral’ impact
- Time to be truthful
- God’s family in peril
- Budget prayer vigil
- ‘Corrective statements’ unsealed
- Keep focused on ministry with poor
- Students respond to hate group
- Online Bible study debuts
- Moral consensus against torture
- Caring for Creation
- DREAM Big retreat for young people
- Bread for the World National Gathering
- On moral budgeting
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March 2, 2011
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- Word from Winkler: Sacrosanct priorities
- Collective bargaining
- Budget cuts condemned
- Cuts threaten women
- Gun-trafficking enforcement hampered
- 5 bishops oppose bill
- UMC tops 12 million
- Alcohol Free Lent
- Immigration ministry organizing
- Healthier children's future
- Putting faith in action
- Free food to feed kids
- Sudan results welcomed
- Referendum celebration
- On public proclamation
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February 22, 2011
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- Word from Winkler: In pursuit of justice
- Young clergy leadership forum
- Global issue of issues
- Next immigration reform steps
- A bad real estate investment
- A dream come true
- Demons ruling angels
- Ugandan activist’s murder condemned
- DREAM Big retreat for young people
- Alcohol Free Lent
- One Great Hour of Sharing
- United Methodists in Congress
- African-American Women & AIDS
- Caring for Creation
- On essence of justice and advocacy
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February 8, 2011
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- Word from Winkler: A prayer for winter
- 2011 legislative priorities
- Alcohol Free Lent
- How about a spirit fund?
- Mixed bag in advocacy for women
- End gay clergy ban
- Naked vegetarianism
- Virginia's biggest threat to injustice
- ‘Christmas People’ in a new year
- U.S. urged to support U.N. resolution
- Judicial Council to review decisions
- Ecumenical Advocacy Days
- Kick Butts Day
- Caring for Creation
- On faith and politics
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February 1, 2011
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- Word from Winkler: Being the church
- Yesterday, today and tomorrow
- A life’s tipping moment
- Looking back to walk forward
- 2 best ways to influence Congress
- End mass incarceration in U.S.
- 20/20 Visioning
- Development, Security & Economic Justice
- 2nd Interfaith Addictions Conference
- African-American Women & AIDS
- ‘Tragedy in Tucson’
- Cape nominated to head GBHEM
- Kick Butts Day March 23
- Call for papers
- On fulfilling dreams
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January 25, 2011
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- Word from Winkler: Imagine No Malaria
- Limit gun magazine size
- A bishop’s immigration letter
- Visit to the casino
- Remember poverty pledge
- Interfaith Addictions Conference
- ‘Let my people go!'
- African-American Women & AIDS
- United Methodist General Assembly Day
- But for the grace of God
- United Methodists cross border
- College rallies against hate group
- Climate change's moral dimension
- Grants to aid immigrants
- On United Methodists and gambling
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January 18, 2011
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- Word from Winkler: Heeding the prophets
- Social Principles inserts
- Faiths United to Prevent Gun Violence
- Tucson shooting mourned
- ‘Soul searching’ on toxic rhetoric
- An amazing year
- Why UMC is losing members
- START passes Senate
- ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’ reply
- Singing the Lord’s Song
- Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
- Bread for the World letters
- Abortion letter
- SBC 21 training
- On racism progress
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January 7, 2011
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- Word from Winkler: Slaughter of innocents
- I Believe You
- Dropping 'I' word for 'B' word
- New theological education model
- Human Relations Day Jan. 16
- Make church bulletin more relevant
- National conference on death penalty
- March for domestic violence law
- Attack on Christians condemned
- Building resilience into food prices
- Kick Butts Day March 23
- The Rev. Bill Barney dies
- Caring for Creation
- Sexual ethics summit
- On overlooking the obvious
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